Moral quandary for ill-gotten gains

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I am writing a novel at this time, and I’ve come up against a situation that I’d love to have an answer to.
To frame this reference, the main character is a teenager - former pagan. She has recently had deliverance (from the prayers of an old New York religious nun) and has been given a supernatural gift of seeing her guardian angel.

She was a fortune teller and has a wad of cash from her previous enterprise. She is now afraid to use it, as she senses that it is “ill-gotten gains” (which it is).

What should she do with the money? She actually needs money to buy clothes/school supplies. What would her guardian angel say?

(I am reasonably certain of the answer, but would like to hear yours)
 
You are writing fiction. The characters can do or say anything you want them to say.

It might be a good idea to join the Catholic Writer’s Guild where you have peers and mentors who can help out. If your desire is to write a story that does not contain anything contrary to the Faith, they have readers for their Seal of Approval who read for just that reason.
 
Well, if it is her money earned legally, if immorally, then she can donate it to the poor (go through the parish she attends, for example, or send to various charities in the diocese as well as some to Peter’s Pence, as the priest or the nun in the story may advise). As far as money to buy school supplies, the parish may either have programs available in the parish, or the town or city may have them, or the priest and/or nun could refer the protagonist to an individual or group for whom she could work to earn money for supplies, etc.

My take. The money itself is not ‘evil’, but the means to earn it was, not illegal probably in the state, but immoral. Choosing not to profit by it herself, but instead donating it to the needy, would seem the best option.
 
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